Welcome to Anchors Of Truth
live from Sacramento California.
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Doctrines That
Divide with Doug Batchelor.
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Well thank you, Tom Mann,
and we are coming to you live
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from Sacramento
California and the
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Sacramento Central
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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And we're so happy to be here.
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It's been a beautiful day
here in northern California.
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The temperature has just
been pretty close to perfect.
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But the best temperature
anywhere is right here
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in this congregation tonight.
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Isn't that right.
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Amen, alright.
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We have an enthusiastic group
here as Pastor Doug is bringing
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us the most unique series that
I personally have ever seen.
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It is a series where he is
playing both parts in a debate.
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Where he is Pastor Doug
and then he is another pastor.
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I think he called
him Pastor Barney.
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So that has become a
very interesting exchange.
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And tonight the subject
is, The Time Of Your Life.
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Now that is going to be an
extremely interesting subject.
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We're going to invite
Pastor Doug in a moment,
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but before we do, I'd
like for you to join me
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in a word of prayer.
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Father in heaven, tonight
we're so thankful that we can
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come to You in the name
of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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That He, our great High Priest,
our Lord, our God, our Creator,
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our Savior, that He is
standing ready to be the One
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that speaks for each of us.
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And Father, we thank You that
His blood upon the cross has
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paid for the sins
of each one of us.
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Now tonight, Father, we
pray that Your Holy Spirit
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will be abundantly poured out
upon, not only on all of us that
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are here in this
auditorium, but on those who are
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watching around the world.
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And we thank You,
Lord. In Jesus' name, amen.
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Well, Pastor Doug Batchelor,
would you join me on the stage.
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And I think this is
one of the most unique sets
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that I have ever seen.
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And this suit is
definitely a very unique suit.
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Now a friend of mine
tuned in late last night.
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So he didn't
hear the explanation.
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And perhaps you'd like to
explain again a little bit about
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that suit and why
the two different colors.
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Alright, Pastor Gilley.
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This is actually a uniform
that will help people recognize
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when I'm representing a
couple of different sides
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of an argument.
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We're talking about
doctrines that divide.
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And I thought to myself,
television is a visual medium.
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Let's create a
different kind of suit.
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And let's face it, how
many times have you been surfing
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through the TV channels and
you see all kinds of preachers
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standing there at a
pulpit pontificating?
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They're going to pause on this
channel for at least a moment
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to try to
understand the new fashion.
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And so, I'm just trying to
get them to at least slow down
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and listen for a moment,
and might catch their hearts.
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I can hardly wait to see the
kids start wearing these though.
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This is going to be
the new rage, I believe.
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And by the way, I'm
very interested in your
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counterpart, Pastor Barney.
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Is it Barney Fife?
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I didn't know whether
you had a last name for him.
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I tried to pick a name
that would not have any,
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wouldn't be disparaging
for anyone living or dead.
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But I didn't mean to say
anything against Barney Fife.
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No, no. I'm just...
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We just feel like that
was a well chosen name.
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I feel that you're doing
a great job with that name.
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And listen, we're looking
forward to tonight's subject,
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The Time Of Your Life.
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We're going to be
talking about the Sabbath.
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Alright, and we are
ready for the time of our life.
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Thank you so
much, Pastor Gilley.
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God bless you, it's
good to be with you.
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And I want to again thank
3ABN for joining Amazing Facts
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in this program.
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It's very exciting to be able
to participate in this special
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Anchors Of Truth series.
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And we've enjoyed a partnership
in soul winning for many years.
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Now I probably should explain
a little bit one more time
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what's happening here with
this set and with this suit.
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I am a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian.
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And I've not always been a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
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I started out as a
Christian with a number of
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evangelical groups.
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I don't even know if they
were organized denominations.
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And as I began to study the
Bible, I just found there were
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so many differences
in Christian teachings
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that it really
grieved me, because I said
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there's one Bible,
there's one Jesus Christ.
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And yet today, there are
about 34,000 different branches
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of Christians in the world.
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And so, at the time I
was living in the mountains.
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I went back up to my cave
where I was living and I prayed.
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And I said something to the
effect, "Lord, it doesn't matter
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to me exactly what denomination
or church I belong to, but
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I want to follow the Bible."
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And I said, "Lord,
show me where to go."
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And after praying, the
Lord began to reveal to me
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the things that turned
out to be the teachings of the
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Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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And I had no family connection,
I had no reason to join
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the church, other than
as I studied in the Bible,
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it made more sense to
me that it was biblical.
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And I want to go to heaven.
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And I want to please the Lord.
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And I believe when I read
the Bible that Jesus tells us
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that He's coming
back for a united people.
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And right now, His
church is so fragmented.
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That's the devil's plan.
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And so the reason I'm doing this
series is, over the course of
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my time as a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian,
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I've heard a number
of different arguments
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for different doctrines.
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And so what's going to happen
is, in our presentation tonight
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we're going to be
talking about the Sabbath.
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When you think about
Seventh-day Adventists,
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probably the most outstanding
doctrine that people think of
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is the Sabbath.
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Because let's face it,
even the Seventh-day Adventists
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could worship in a
Baptist church; we believe in
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baptism by emersion.
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And we could worship
in a Methodist church;
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we believe in sanctification.
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And we could worship in
a lot different churches
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and sort of melt in.
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Except, obviously, we
worship on a different day.
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And so that creates a whole
divisive issue all by itself.
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And so when I stand over here,
I'll be defending biblical truth
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from a Seventh-day
Adventist perspective.
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And then I've
created this imaginary figure
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we're calling Pastor Barney.
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And he is sort of a conglomerate
of all the different arguments
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that I've heard over
the course of my life.
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Now someone's probably
thinking, "Why, Pastor Doug,
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is this ever narcissistic.
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You have to debate yourself."
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But really, I thought in
order for me to cover all the
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different points and
objections that I've heard,
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this is for me, I thought,
a creative way to present it.
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And I've never done
anything like this before,
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so I appreciate your prayers.
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But tonight's subject is
dealing with the Sabbath truth.
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And I thought it would be
appropriate for us to begin
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by going to that commandment
that you're going to find
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in your Bibles.
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It's in Exodus chapter 20.
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It's the fourth of
the Ten Commandments.
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If you're a Protestant,
you number it as the fourth.
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And that begins with
verse 8. Exodus 20 verse 8.
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He made it holy.
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Now there's the commandment.
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And the reason that Seventh-day
Adventist Christians keep the
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Sabbath day is because it's
one of the Ten Commandments.
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Now if there is a
doctrine that we should allow to
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become divisive, I would think
it would be a doctrine that
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God spoke with His voice
and wrote with His finger.
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There are probably a lot of
things that are not essentials
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in Christianity that we
might debate and talk about
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that really aren't going to make
a difference in the long run.
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But if sin is the
transgression of God's law,
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and if God's perfect
will is revealed in His law...
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Psalm 40 verse 8 says,
"Yea, I love to do Thy will.
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Thy law is within my heart."
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So the law of God
is the will of God.
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Then it does make a difference
if Christians are neglecting or
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violating or seeking to do away
with one of the commandments.
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And so we're going
to take some time and
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talk about this tonight.
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And I'm going to be sharing
with you, when I assume my
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alter ego here, what some
of the most common arguments
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are that I've heard.
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And so we're going to go
through these, I've sort of
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summarized them
in about ten points.
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And the first one is, was
the Sabbath just for the Jews?
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And we're going to let
Pastor Barney start off here.
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Okay Pastor Doug, I want to
hear an explanation for this.
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Exodus 31:16 and 17.
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We heard you read the Ten
Commandments from Exodus 20.
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This is Exodus 31. It
clarifies the Sabbath.
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And it says:
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And then one
more, Deuteronomy 5.
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Now the Lord gives
the Ten Commandments,
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not only in Exodus 20,
but He also repeats the
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Ten Commandments in
Deuteronomy chapter 5.
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And listen to the
little additional verse that He
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gives in Deuteronomy
that you don't find in Exodus.
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Verse 12, Deuteronomy 5:12.
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"And remember that you were
a servant in the land of Egypt
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and that the Lord your
God brought you out hence
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through a mighty hand
and stretched out arm.
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Therefore, the Lord
thy God commanded thee to
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keep the Sabbath Day."
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And so, brother Doug, you should
not be making people feel guilty
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about keeping this commandment.
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That this particular commandment
was for the Jewish people.
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And I've just
read you two verses.
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It was distinct and
different from the others.
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Okay Pastor Barney,
first thing that comes to mind
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when I hear someone say
that is, do you believe that any
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of the other Ten Commandments
are just for the Jews?
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I mean, you think about
it, are only Jews suppose to
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not worship images?
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A lot in the New
Testament about us not being
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involved in idolatry.
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The whole mark of the
beast issue is talking about,
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do not worship the
image of the beast.
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So idolatry is still there.
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Honoring God's name is one of
the, it's in the Lord's prayer.
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You talk about
not having other gods.
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Obviously, Christians
and Jews should keep that.
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So why would
this one commandment
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only be for the Jewish people?
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The Lord didn't
give the Jews the Sabbath
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right there on Mount Sinai.
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The Sabbath
predates Mount Sinai.
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You can go all
the way back to...
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Oh, I've got a bug
flying around my head here.
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He's going to distract me.
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We'll edit that
out. Sorry, friends.
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You go all the way
back to Genesis chapter 2,
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is when you
first find the Sabbath.
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It tells us in
Genesis 2 verse 2 and verse 3
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that the Sabbath was made
in the very beginning for man.
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Matter of fact, let's read
that. Mark chapter 2 verse 27.
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"The Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath.
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Therefore, the Son of Man
is Lord also of the Sabbath."
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Wouldn't that have been a
good place for Jesus to say,
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"The Sabbath is
made for the Jews."
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But He didn't, He used a word
there that describes mankind.
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And isn't it true that
everybody needs to rest?
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Would you think perhaps that the
Lord wants Christians to keep
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a different day for the
Sabbath than He does the Jews?
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Isaiah 56 verses 6 and 7.
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"Also the sons of the stranger
who join themselves to the Lord,
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to serve Him, and to
love the name of the Lord,
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to be His servants,
everyone that keeps the Sabbath,
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from polluting it..."
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The sons of the
stranger, non Jews,
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that join themselves to
the Lord, they become children
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of God, and He specifically
mentions keeping the Sabbath.
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One of the signs that we become
God's is in keeping the Sabbath.
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"...from polluting it, and
takes hold of My covenant."
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It's one of the laws
God writes in your heart
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even in the new covenant.
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"Even them I will
bring to My holy mountain,
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and make them joyful
in My house of prayer."
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And a matter of fact, if
you go to Isaiah chapter 66,
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it tells us that even in
heaven, from month to month,
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or from one new moon to another,
and from Sabbath to Sabbath,
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shall all flesh come together
and worship before the Lord.
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So Pastor Barney, do you
think when we get to heaven
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there's going to be one Sabbath
that the Jews worship the Lord
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and one Sabbath that the
Gentiles worship the Lord?
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That wouldn't
make any sense to me.
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Sabbath was made for everybody.
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Alright, second point.
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Now when I stand here,
I'm sort of the moderator.
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Okay?
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Not that this is a fair fight.
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I told you that in
our last presentation.
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Did the resurrection change the
Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday?
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Again, Pastor Barney.
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What do you have
to say about that?
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If you read in Matthew
chapter 28 verse 1, it says:
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And that was the
day of the resurrection.
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So Pastor Doug, do agree
that Jesus rose from the dead
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on the first day
of the week, Sunday?
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Yes.
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Alright, if you agree with
that, Matthew 28:1, it says,
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"Now after the Sabbath..."
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That verse there actually
has a deeper spiritual meaning.
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"After the Sabbath," means after
the ages of the Jewish Sabbath,
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Jesus rose on the first
day of the week to begin
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a new dispensation.
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And the fact that He
rose on Sunday, it says they
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gathered that evening.
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That was the
first Sunday gathering
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to inaugurate the new Sabbath.
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Pastor Barney, it
actually says that they gathered
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for fear of the Jews.
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Can you please show me
where the verse says that they
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gathered to inaugurate a new
commandment or to move that day?
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Let's go to another verse here.
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Luke 24 verse 1.
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Jesus rose Sunday to
inaugurate the new Sabbath
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for the Christians.
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Again, Pastor Barney, I have no
problem saying that Jesus rose
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on the first day of the week.
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And that was very important.
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But where does it say in
this verse that this now became
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the new Sabbath commandment?
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It doesn't say that, does it.
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In fact, everywhere I look
in the Bible, it tells us that
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the Sabbath is still intact.
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If you read the verse
just before, Luke 23:56,
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notice what that says.
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Just before that resurrection
Sunday, we agree it was Sunday,
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it says, "They
returned and prepared spices
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and fragrant oils.
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And they rested on the
Sabbath according to..."
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The Jewish tradition?
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The ceremonial Sabbath?
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No, it says,
"... the commandment."
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And by the way, was Luke
a Gentile or was Luke a Jew?
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Luke was a Gentile that
Paul met probably when he
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went to Macedonia.
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Okay, so here you've got the
only Gentile writer in the Bible
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who is referring to the
Sabbath in a matter of fact way.
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And it says that the disciples
would not break the Sabbath day
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even to finish
embalming His body.
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That means that after three and
a half years of watching Jesus
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and hearing Jesus teach,
that when He died and they were
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heartbroken and they had
not yet finished wrapping
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and preparing His body,
when they saw the sun going down
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they stopped because they
said, "This is a commandment
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of God and Jesus.
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God the Son would not want
us breaking this commandment."
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Pastor Doug, the reason for that
is they were Jews and they were
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following the Jewish law.
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That is not an obligation
on Gentile Christians.
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And until Jesus actually
rose, they were still under
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the old dispensation.
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Once Jesus rose, they're
now under the new dispensation.
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Well I've got a problem
with that, Pastor Barney.
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The way that laws work
with a will and a covenant,
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a testament, is once a
person makes out their will
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and they explain the terms
of their will, and they seal
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their will and they die,
you cannot add anything else
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to their will
and their testament.
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They add what they want to add.
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The Lord, when He gave the
new testament to the disciples
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during the last supper, He
told them during those previous
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three and a half years what
the terms of His kingdom were.
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He never said anything
about coming to introduce a
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new Sabbath day.
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When He dies, it
is sealed in blood.
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The idea that you're creating
a new commandment after Jesus
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died and sealed the new
testament with His blood,
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you're manufacturing a new law.
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Well, but we've got examples
where they continue to keep it
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after that time.
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Alright, well that will
be probably a good segue
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into point number
three in our study.
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Or what we would call
the first day of the week?
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Pastor Barney?
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Yes they did. There
are several examples.
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The morning of the resurrection,
well of course they came to the
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tomb together, Sunday morning.
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That evening they gathered
together in the upper room.
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Then we find there's an example
in Acts chapter 20 verse 7.
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So if you've got
your Bibles, note this.
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And this is pretty deep
into the acts of the apostles.
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This is after the
church is well established.
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And it says here:
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They came together on the first
day of the week to break bread.
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Break bread, that's
a communion service.
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Here they were, gathering
together to read the Bible,
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to listen to a sermon,
to have a communion service.
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Obviously, this was the
custom of the disciples.
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Sunday was the new Sabbath.
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First, I've got to challenge
you on a couple of points there.
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You said that because they
broke bread, that meant now it's
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a new Sabbath day.
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According to my Bible, if you
look in Acts chapter 2 verse 46.
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By the way, I think
we're using the same Bible.
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Acts chapter 2 verse 46.
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How often? Daily.
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Here they were
breaking bread on a daily basis.
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The Middle Eastern bread, as
it is today it was back then,
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it came baked in round loaves.
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And whenever you ate with
somebody, you broke the bread
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and you handed it to them.
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Not every time it talks about
breaking bread in the Bible
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does it mean they had a special
ceremonial communion service.
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Furthermore,
according to the Bible, when do
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days begin and end?
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Twelve o'clock midnight.
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No, Pastor Barney, that
didn't start until we had
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modern time pieces.
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According to the Bible,
days begin and end at sundown.
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"From even unto even you
will celebrate your Sabbaths."
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And the Jews still
practice that today.
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It's at sundown.
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Now if it says they gathered
together for a meeting at night
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on the first day of the
week, I'm still looking at
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Acts chapter 20
verse 7, meeting at night
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on the first day of the week.
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When would the first day
of the week begin biblically?
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What we would
call Saturday night.
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Here they had been together all
day Sabbath, the sun goes down,
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they have a vespers.
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Paul preaches to them his
farewell sermon because the
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next day, what we would
call Sunday morning, it says,
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"ready to depart on the morrow,"
he begins a long journey
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making his way to Jerusalem.
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Something no Jew would
ever do on the Sabbath day.
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Actually, this verse endorses
that they were still keeping
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the seventh day Sabbath.
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It doesn't say they instituted
a new day or that they were
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having a communion service.
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I just need to tell you,
if we're biblically honest,
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that's a stretch.
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Alright Pastor Doug,
I've got another verse here.
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That's not the only one.
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1 Corinthians
chapter 16 verses 1 and 2.
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They're having an offering.
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Alright, so I showed
you a communion serve on the
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first day of the week.
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Now there's an offering
on the first day of the week.
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The first day was the new
Sabbath for the disciples.
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I'll finish the verse, though.
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"Upon the first day of
the week let every one of you
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lay by him in store,
as God has prospered him,
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that there be no
gatherings when I come."
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Pastor Barney, you notice that
it said there in that verse,
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he was collecting a special
offering that they were to
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"lay by them in store."
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The first of the week,
the word "day" actually is
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not even in the original.
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If you've got a Bible
version that has the added word
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italicized, you'll
notice it simply says,
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"the first of the week," or
"at the beginning of the week,
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let everyone of
you lay by him..."
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"By him," means at your home.
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"In store..." you don't
store your stuff at church.
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"...store an
offering, set something aside,
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so that when I come, as I
visit you I can collect it,
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so there is no special
collection during the service
00:23:50.33\00:23:53.64
for Jerusalem that
would be for their local needs
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when I come through."
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He's actually saying, "The
first of the week after you've
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gathered for Sabbath and
you've paid your tithe and your
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offering, and you get
your accounts in order,
00:24:02.95\00:24:04.77
if you can set aside something
special for the famine in
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Jerusalem, set it
aside at your home."
00:24:08.30\00:24:11.23
It has nothing to do
with them meeting in a church.
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Nothing in this verse says
that this was a church meeting.
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It's actually
saying the opposite.
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Matter of fact, I'd like
to ask you, where in the Bible
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do we have a command to keep
the first day holy as a Sabbath?
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Well, we've got a
long standing tradition
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of what the
church has been doing.
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But I've been studying the Bible
and I think I found one for you.
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Nehemiah chapter 8 verse 18.
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It says, "They kept the
feast seven days; and on the
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eighth day there
was a sacred assembly."
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Now you believe that the seventh
day is the Sabbath, right?
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The seventh day
of the week, yes.
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Well here it says the eighth
day they had a sacred assembly.
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That would be the
eighth day sequentially from
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when this feast began.
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There is no
eighth day of the week.
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Well, but you said that
the seventh day is the Sabbath.
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So what's the day
after the seventh day?
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Well that's the first
day. It's not the eighth day.
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Now I've heard this before.
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Nice try.
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That was an annual feast.
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It fell on different
days of the week every year.
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It wasn't telling us
that is was the new Sabbath.
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By the way, that's
in the book of Nehemiah.
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That's pretty deep
in the Old Testament.
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They still
continued to keep the Sabbath.
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And if you read later
in the book of Nehemiah,
00:25:41.30\00:25:43.41
he gets real upset when
they start breaking the Sabbath.
00:25:43.44\00:25:46.18
He tells them to lock
the gates because they were
00:25:46.19\00:25:47.99
going out buying and selling.
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Now Pastor Doug, actually there
was another story in the Bible.
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Do you know about the
battle where Joshua prayed
00:25:57.81\00:26:00.50
and the sun stood still?
00:26:00.53\00:26:02.07
Yes, I'm acquainted with that.
00:26:03.28\00:26:05.18
The sun stood still
for almost 24 hours.
00:26:06.19\00:26:09.44
That's right.
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Just probably shy of that.
00:26:11.64\00:26:13.58
Extra 15 minutes
from the book of Hezekiah.
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I agree precisely.
00:26:17.41\00:26:19.18
If you add that 23 and
3/4 hours of Joshua with the
00:26:19.21\00:26:24.84
15 minutes of Hezekiah,
you get a 24 hour period.
00:26:24.87\00:26:28.73
Saturday turned into Sunday
during those two miracles.
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Now friends, this is
one of the reasons I became
00:26:34.70\00:26:36.69
a Seventh-day Adventist.
00:26:36.72\00:26:37.94
Is because when I had questions
and I went to different pastors,
00:26:38.34\00:26:41.88
that Pastor Barney represents,
no two pastors gave me exactly
00:26:41.91\00:26:47.16
the same reason why
we're not suppose to keep
00:26:47.19\00:26:49.76
that commandment.
00:26:49.79\00:26:51.10
Pastor Barney, do you
believe that we're suppose to
00:26:53.16\00:26:54.81
keep the Ten Commandments?
00:26:54.84\00:26:56.26
No, we're not under the law.
00:26:57.95\00:26:59.45
Do you think it's okay for us
to break the Ten Commandments?
00:27:01.36\00:27:04.73
Well no, we're
suppose to keep nine of them.
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So there's one commandment that
begins with the word "remember",
00:27:12.60\00:27:16.67
and you're telling me
that's the one commandment
00:27:16.70\00:27:18.67
we're suppose to forget.
00:27:18.70\00:27:20.28
Yes.
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That's exactly what you're going
to hear when you go out there.
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Friends, I am not kidding you.
00:27:29.82\00:27:31.42
I've done meetings where
I've preached the gospel on this
00:27:31.45\00:27:34.09
subject in towns and
pastors have come from the
00:27:34.12\00:27:36.58
local Sunday
congregations; good people.
00:27:36.61\00:27:39.64
And after they
heard the Sabbath truth...
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I know one pastor in particular,
he went back to his church.
00:27:42.82\00:27:45.67
They had the Ten Commandments
up on the wall in their
00:27:45.70\00:27:47.73
Sunday school classes.
00:27:47.76\00:27:48.79
He took them all down.
00:27:48.82\00:27:50.61
Because they realize that
if they're going to keep the
00:27:51.02\00:27:53.56
Ten Commandments in
there, they've got to deal with
00:27:53.59\00:27:56.68
the one that says, "remember".
00:27:56.71\00:27:57.88
It's in the middle of God's law,
it begins with the word "holy".
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The only commandment, the only
time you find the word "holy"
00:28:01.30\00:28:04.25
in the law of God is in
the Sabbath commandment.
00:28:04.28\00:28:06.87
It's the longest of
the Ten Commandments.
00:28:07.54\00:28:09.71
And it's the one the
devil especially hates,
00:28:10.35\00:28:12.63
because life is made of time.
00:28:13.29\00:28:16.00
And God wants our hearts.
00:28:17.08\00:28:18.99
And the way that you show
your love is by giving time.
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And God wants holy
time with us every week.
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And I might ask you
that, Pastor Barney.
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Do you think that it's important
that we gather together
00:28:27.79\00:28:30.62
to worship the
Lord on a regular basis?
00:28:30.72\00:28:34.60
Yes, Pastor Doug, I
think that we should worship
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the Lord every week.
00:28:38.25\00:28:40.00
And you worship the
Lord one day a week.
00:28:40.03\00:28:43.56
I worship the
Lord seven days a week.
00:28:43.57\00:28:45.71
Pastor Barney, I worship
God seven days a week too.
00:28:48.21\00:28:50.99
I have prayer and I
worship Him all through the day,
00:28:51.02\00:28:54.69
just like you.
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But we're not talking
about worshipping the Lord.
00:28:55.71\00:28:58.13
We're really talking about
a formal collective worship
00:28:58.16\00:29:00.56
service that we
keep as a holy day.
00:29:00.57\00:29:02.73
If you are keeping seven
days a week as a Sabbath,
00:29:02.76\00:29:05.52
you're not holy,
you're really lazy.
00:29:05.55\00:29:07.57
Because it means
you're not working.
00:29:07.60\00:29:09.15
Because the rest of
that commandment says,
00:29:09.18\00:29:10.53
"six days shalt thou labor."
00:29:10.56\00:29:12.79
And if you go through
your whole week saying,
00:29:12.82\00:29:13.99
"I'm not working
today, I'm worshipping,"
00:29:14.00\00:29:15.90
that's not holy, that's lazy.
00:29:15.93\00:29:18.59
Alright, let's carry on here.
00:29:19.49\00:29:21.32
Alright, I'll
assume my position here.
00:29:24.37\00:29:26.47
Number four.
00:29:26.48\00:29:27.86
How many of us have all
heard Sunday referred to
00:29:31.57\00:29:33.96
as the Lord's Day?
00:29:33.97\00:29:35.37
I'm glad you're giving me
a little bit of time here.
00:29:39.16\00:29:41.88
Not been very fair so far.
00:29:41.91\00:29:44.03
Revelation 1:10, "I was in
the Spirit on the Lord's Day."
00:29:44.06\00:29:48.15
Here you've got the
last book of the Bible.
00:29:48.18\00:29:50.21
You've got the oldest and
longest living of the apostles,
00:29:50.24\00:29:53.14
and he is recognizing
that he was worshipping God
00:29:53.17\00:29:56.53
here on the Lord's Day;
that everybody knows is Sunday.
00:29:56.56\00:30:00.84
Everywhere you go, churches
everywhere refer to Sunday
00:30:00.87\00:30:04.95
as the Lord's Day.
00:30:04.96\00:30:05.96
And John the apostle
says he was in the Spirit.
00:30:05.97\00:30:08.25
He had the vision of
Revelation on the Lord's Day.
00:30:08.28\00:30:11.01
Now I recognize that what you
said, Pastor Barney, is true.
00:30:12.53\00:30:15.51
John does say that.
00:30:15.54\00:30:17.19
And churches everywhere
say that the first day of the
00:30:17.22\00:30:19.51
week is the Lord's Day.
00:30:19.54\00:30:20.72
But what I need is scripture.
00:30:20.75\00:30:22.79
And I'm not even going
to go over there because
00:30:23.23\00:30:24.60
you know and I know that there
isn't any scripture on that.
00:30:24.63\00:30:27.17
What does the Bible
say is the Lord's Day?
00:30:28.12\00:30:30.64
If you look in Isaiah 58:13,
and these are only two of many.
00:30:32.06\00:30:35.90
Pasto Barney, He didn't
call it the Jews holy Day.
00:30:44.39\00:30:48.63
He said, "My holy Day."
00:30:48.66\00:30:50.62
And again, Exodus 20,
in the commandment itself.
00:30:51.79\00:30:54.64
"The Sabbath of
the Lord thy God."
00:31:07.24\00:31:09.77
So in Revelation 1:10, were
John says, "I was in the Spirit
00:31:09.80\00:31:15.73
on the Lord's Day," it
may mean one of two things.
00:31:15.76\00:31:19.11
And I'll be
fine with either one.
00:31:19.14\00:31:20.78
John, obviously, was
still keeping the Sabbath.
00:31:21.18\00:31:24.34
He wasn't going to be
working in the mines of Patmos.
00:31:24.74\00:31:27.89
He was probably
worshipping the Lord that day.
00:31:27.92\00:31:30.61
He may have had the vision of
Revelation on the Sabbath day.
00:31:30.64\00:31:34.41
And another interpretation
I've heard is, when he said,
00:31:34.91\00:31:37.94
"I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's Day,"
00:31:37.95\00:31:39.33
he means the day that
Jesus appeared to him and
00:31:39.36\00:31:42.57
showed the second coming.
00:31:42.60\00:31:44.25
That is sometimes
called, "the Day of the Lord,"
00:31:44.28\00:31:46.05
the second coming.
00:31:46.08\00:31:47.11
And so, either way.
00:31:47.14\00:31:48.39
But it is not saying
it was a new Sabbath day.
00:31:48.42\00:31:51.32
You know, I think most of
us recognize that when God gave
00:31:51.82\00:31:54.81
the Ten
Commandments, He did something
00:31:54.84\00:31:58.48
He's never done before.
00:31:58.51\00:32:00.29
God spoke
audibly from a mountain.
00:32:00.75\00:32:03.50
He used a megaphone
to talk to a nation.
00:32:03.53\00:32:07.08
Don't you always wonder what His
voice must have sounded like.
00:32:07.09\00:32:09.66
Can you imagine hearing that?
00:32:11.07\00:32:12.52
The Creator of the
cosmos speaking where people
00:32:12.82\00:32:15.72
can hear His voice.
00:32:15.75\00:32:17.04
And then He wrote
it with His finger.
00:32:18.16\00:32:19.84
And then from that time
all the way through the Bible,
00:32:20.80\00:32:25.32
we see God's people
keeping the Sabbath commandment.
00:32:25.35\00:32:28.00
When you get to the
New Testament, with all the
00:32:28.03\00:32:31.17
arguments and discussions
they had about certain
00:32:31.20\00:32:33.69
ceremonial laws, if God
was going to change one of His
00:32:33.72\00:32:37.23
commandments that He
spoke with His voice,
00:32:37.26\00:32:39.32
wouldn't you see a
lot of evidence for that
00:32:40.01\00:32:42.46
in the New Testament?
00:32:42.49\00:32:43.60
I mean, can you
imagine, friends...
00:32:43.63\00:32:45.37
I mean, here
we're in California.
00:32:46.63\00:32:48.46
We've got our
own traffic issues.
00:32:48.47\00:32:50.57
If I were to tell you that the
government has voted, next week
00:32:50.60\00:32:54.09
they're changing the
speed limit to 90 miles an hour,
00:32:54.12\00:32:57.83
would any of you believe me?
00:32:57.86\00:32:59.93
No, especially with the
energy problems right now.
00:33:00.74\00:33:03.15
And then if I added to that,
they're not only going to be
00:33:03.62\00:33:06.70
going 90 miles an hour,
but we've decided because we're
00:33:06.71\00:33:09.73
so close an ally with England,
we're going to switch sides
00:33:09.74\00:33:12.73
of the road, like they do
in Hong Kong and India, and
00:33:12.76\00:33:15.87
all the British Commonwealths
in Australia, we're going to
00:33:15.88\00:33:18.40
actually start driving on
the other side of the road.
00:33:18.43\00:33:20.94
Would you believe that the
government would slip something
00:33:22.32\00:33:25.16
like that through
without your knowing it?
00:33:25.19\00:33:27.32
So what is the likelihood in
the culture of the New Testament
00:33:28.16\00:33:32.92
for God to change the
commandment regarding His
00:33:32.95\00:33:35.94
blessed day of worship and
there to be a deafening silence
00:33:35.97\00:33:39.97
all through the New Testament.
00:33:40.00\00:33:41.43
I mean, there was great debate
about all kinds of things like
00:33:41.46\00:33:44.05
circumcision and sacrifices
and Jewish feast days,
00:33:44.08\00:33:47.06
and all kinds of stuff
they argued and debated,
00:33:47.09\00:33:49.26
whether or not you
should or shouldn't eat things
00:33:49.29\00:33:51.12
sacrifice to idols,
and all kinds of issues.
00:33:51.15\00:33:54.68
But you never hear
Paul, Peter, James, John,
00:33:55.21\00:33:58.17
anybody say, "Now the first
day is the new Sabbath day."
00:33:58.20\00:34:02.99
Shouldn't it have some
kind of credibility, like when
00:34:03.02\00:34:06.59
He gave it to begin with,
if you're going to change the
00:34:06.60\00:34:09.73
one commandment
that He says remember?
00:34:09.76\00:34:11.77
Alright, you can tell
which side of the issue I'm on.
00:34:12.73\00:34:15.54
I don't believe that
the Lord's Day is on...
00:34:17.01\00:34:21.22
Let me see where I'm at here.
00:34:23.05\00:34:24.29
Alright, number five.
00:34:24.69\00:34:26.49
I'm glad you shared that
point because I was going to
00:34:33.83\00:34:35.49
say that myself.
00:34:35.50\00:34:36.91
One reason that we still believe
in the other nine commandments
00:34:36.94\00:34:40.18
and we don't believe in
the Sabbath commandment,
00:34:40.21\00:34:42.35
Pastor Doug, is because
you don't find anywhere in the
00:34:42.38\00:34:45.59
New Testament where
the Sabbath is repeated.
00:34:45.60\00:34:48.76
But you do find all the other
nine commandments repeated.
00:34:48.79\00:34:52.08
Pastor Barney, you know better.
00:34:55.29\00:34:59.14
And I might even ask our
audience here, have you ever
00:35:00.21\00:35:02.47
heard that
before someone say that?
00:35:02.50\00:35:04.53
I see some hands out there.
00:35:04.54\00:35:06.93
You've heard of urban myths?
00:35:07.74\00:35:09.69
That is a biblical myth.
00:35:10.06\00:35:11.43
And sometimes we learn that when
you say a myth often enough,
00:35:11.46\00:35:14.95
people believe it's true
without every investigating.
00:35:14.98\00:35:17.90
Years ago, I think Aristotle
said, "The spider is an
00:35:17.93\00:35:20.62
insect with six legs."
00:35:20.65\00:35:22.42
And they wrote that and repeated
it through history until
00:35:22.45\00:35:24.89
someone finally got
down and looked and said,
00:35:24.92\00:35:27.15
"No, he's got eight legs."
00:35:27.18\00:35:28.60
People just have a tendency to
repeat things that are not true.
00:35:29.50\00:35:32.97
Actually, there is one of
the Ten Commandments that you
00:35:33.43\00:35:36.36
do not find repeated
in the New Testament.
00:35:36.39\00:35:39.94
Pastor Barney, can you tell
us what that commandment is?
00:35:40.67\00:35:43.30
It's the Sabbath commandment.
00:35:45.10\00:35:46.53
Actually, I can show you several
places in the New Testament
00:35:49.20\00:35:51.72
where you still find
the Sabbath repeated.
00:35:51.75\00:35:54.01
First of all, you can look
in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 4.
00:35:55.25\00:35:58.91
It says:
00:35:58.94\00:36:00.01
You can look at
Hebrews chapter 4 verse 9.
00:36:07.27\00:36:09.95
That word "rest"
there is "sabbatismos."
00:36:13.23\00:36:16.07
And that means, a keeping
of the Sabbath; it remains.
00:36:16.10\00:36:19.17
That's written by
Paul in the New Testament.
00:36:19.20\00:36:21.01
Not to mention, you can
go through a number of places
00:36:21.04\00:36:23.98
in Acts where it talks
about them keeping the Sabbath.
00:36:24.01\00:36:26.62
Acts 16 verse 13,
written again by a Gentile.
00:36:26.65\00:36:30.16
Showing that they kept it.
00:36:40.13\00:36:41.70
But there is one commandment
of the ten you don't find
00:36:42.30\00:36:45.14
explicitly repeated
in the New Testament.
00:36:45.17\00:36:47.29
And that's the commandment
that says, "You shall not
00:36:47.67\00:36:50.15
take the name of the
Lord your God in vain,
00:36:50.18\00:36:52.20
for the Lord will not
hold him guiltless that
00:36:52.23\00:36:53.95
taketh His name in vain."
00:36:53.98\00:36:55.09
Pastor Barney, can you show
me where in the New Testament
00:36:55.12\00:36:57.80
you're going to
find that commandment?
00:36:57.83\00:36:59.66
How much time do we have?
00:37:01.50\00:37:02.86
The Bible does say,
"Hallowed be Thy name."
00:37:04.63\00:37:07.45
I will agree with you that
this is the same principle.
00:37:08.66\00:37:12.33
But you have to admit, that's
really as close as you get.
00:37:12.36\00:37:16.02
Nowhere in the New Testament do
you find the third commandment.
00:37:16.39\00:37:18.71
Who here believes that
it's okay then to break the
00:37:19.14\00:37:21.81
third commandment because
you don't find it explicitly
00:37:21.84\00:37:24.79
repeated as a carbon
copy the way that you find it
00:37:24.82\00:37:28.93
in the Old Testament.
00:37:28.96\00:37:30.39
The principles were all there.
00:37:30.42\00:37:32.78
And Jesus made it very clear.
00:37:32.81\00:37:34.49
The last thing in the
world they wanted to do was to
00:37:34.50\00:37:36.69
abolish the commandments of God.
00:37:36.72\00:37:39.00
Alright, well
Pastor Doug, there's more.
00:37:39.93\00:37:42.95
Number six.
00:37:45.27\00:37:46.81
Alright, Pastor Barney.
00:37:53.65\00:37:54.92
Romans chapter
14 verses 5 and 6.
00:37:54.95\00:37:58.16
Well, some people
esteem the Sabbath day,
00:38:05.50\00:38:07.98
others don't
esteem the Sabbath day.
00:38:08.01\00:38:10.10
It says, let everybody
just kind of do their own thing.
00:38:10.13\00:38:13.83
"He who observes the
day, observes it to the Lord.
00:38:13.86\00:38:16.66
He who does not
observe the day, to the Lord
00:38:16.69\00:38:18.60
he does not observe it.
00:38:18.61\00:38:19.75
He who eats, to the Lord he
eats, and he gives God thanks.
00:38:19.78\00:38:22.88
And he who doesn't eat,
to the Lord he does not eat,
00:38:22.91\00:38:25.43
and he gives God thanks."
00:38:25.44\00:38:26.46
Pastor Doug, in other words,
don't be judging other people
00:38:26.49\00:38:29.82
regarding what day
they keep as a Sabbath day.
00:38:29.85\00:38:32.61
Let everybody decide.
00:38:32.64\00:38:34.45
You know the problem I've
got with this, Pastor Barney,
00:38:35.65\00:38:37.44
I've heard a lot of
pastors say that to me.
00:38:37.47\00:38:39.05
But then when I ask them,
are you willing to tell your
00:38:39.08\00:38:42.03
congregation, "You
decide to come to church
00:38:42.06\00:38:45.06
whatever day you feel like."
00:38:45.09\00:38:46.75
Have you ever used that verse
in your congregation that way?
00:38:46.78\00:38:50.49
No.
00:38:53.40\00:38:54.72
The fact is, if truth be known,
you have a hard enough time
00:38:57.11\00:38:59.98
getting them to keep
Sunday as the Sabbath.
00:39:00.01\00:39:03.02
Pastor Barney, do you
keep Sunday as the Sabbath?
00:39:05.41\00:39:08.65
Do you keep it as a holy day?
00:39:08.68\00:39:10.36
Well, I do go to church.
00:39:12.87\00:39:15.80
And then if the lawn
needs mowing, I mow the lawn.
00:39:15.83\00:39:18.79
And the wife might
need to do some shopping.
00:39:18.80\00:39:21.01
And might need a little
entertainment with the family
00:39:21.02\00:39:23.50
and we'll go to the movies.
00:39:23.51\00:39:24.55
But we do keep it
holy while we're in church
00:39:24.56\00:39:27.82
on Sunday morning.
00:39:27.85\00:39:28.89
Well according to the
Bible the Sabbath is a day,
00:39:30.63\00:39:33.28
it's not a two hour period.
00:39:33.31\00:39:35.06
And yet not too many people
are keeping that whole day holy
00:39:36.36\00:39:39.55
on the first day of the week.
00:39:39.58\00:39:40.82
By the way, in
Romans chapter 14, the word
00:39:40.85\00:39:43.68
"Sabbath" never appears.
00:39:43.71\00:39:45.49
He's talking about
keeping the Jewish feast days.
00:39:45.52\00:39:48.55
There was a great debate
on which feast days were kept.
00:39:48.58\00:39:51.68
Keep in mind, the
Sabbath commandment goes
00:39:51.69\00:39:54.66
all the way back to Genesis.
00:39:54.69\00:39:57.02
The annual feast of the
Jews, you find them during the
00:39:57.05\00:40:00.88
time of the exodus.
00:40:00.91\00:40:02.82
One happened before there
was even sin in the universe.
00:40:02.85\00:40:06.77
Part of God's perfect law
is the seventh day Sabbath.
00:40:06.78\00:40:10.12
The other Jewish annual Sabbath
days, and this is what Paul
00:40:10.15\00:40:13.31
is talking about in
Romans 14, they came after sin.
00:40:13.34\00:40:17.00
They were nailed to the cross.
00:40:17.03\00:40:18.72
Alright Pastor Doug, that
brings me up to another verse
00:40:19.56\00:40:22.89
that I'd like to read.
00:40:22.92\00:40:24.10
Talking about nailed to the
cross, Colossians 2, don't be
00:40:24.50\00:40:28.58
judging people, verses 14 to 16.
00:40:28.61\00:40:31.51
When Jesus came and
He died on the cross,
00:40:31.81\00:40:34.38
He blotted out
these Sabbath days.
00:40:34.78\00:40:37.15
Notice, "Blotting out
the handwriting of ordinances
00:40:37.18\00:40:40.41
that were against us,
which was contrary to us,
00:40:40.42\00:40:43.94
and took it out of the
way, nailing it to His cross.
00:40:43.97\00:40:47.23
Having spoiled principalities
and powers, He made a
00:40:47.26\00:40:50.35
show of them openly,
triumphing over them in it.
00:40:50.38\00:40:53.26
Let no man therefore judge
you in meat, or in drink, or in
00:40:53.29\00:40:57.91
respect of a holiday, or the new
moon, or of the Sabbath days."
00:40:57.94\00:41:02.73
Let no one judge you
regarding the Sabbath days.
00:41:02.76\00:41:05.63
Case closed.
00:41:05.66\00:41:06.81
That's it, I mean, how can
you be more clear than that?
00:41:08.39\00:41:10.40
So if anyone tries to judge
you; one man regards one day
00:41:10.43\00:41:13.69
above another,
don't let anyone judge you
00:41:13.72\00:41:15.70
regarding the Sabbath days.
00:41:15.73\00:41:17.00
Have we all heard that before?
00:41:20.60\00:41:22.01
We need to rightly divide the
word of truth if we're going to
00:41:22.79\00:41:25.59
get truth
regarding biblical doctrines.
00:41:25.60\00:41:28.78
It is true.
00:41:29.18\00:41:30.45
It says that there
were some laws that are
00:41:30.48\00:41:32.64
nailed to the cross.
00:41:32.67\00:41:33.88
We need to find out
what they're talking about.
00:41:33.91\00:41:35.81
Now notice specifically
what Paul said here.
00:41:36.31\00:41:39.84
I'm in Colossians 2:14,
"Blotting out the handwriting."
00:41:39.87\00:41:45.96
The what?
00:41:45.97\00:41:47.06
"...handwriting of ordinances,"
00:41:47.09\00:41:50.12
and then notice,
"that was against us."
00:41:50.15\00:41:52.41
He's identifying what it
is that is being blotted out.
00:41:52.42\00:41:55.16
What is the
handwriting and the ordinances?
00:41:55.19\00:41:58.96
Look in
Deuteronomy chapter 31:26.
00:41:58.97\00:42:02.87
Paul is referring back to this.
00:42:02.90\00:42:04.78
Now, let me see how many
Bible scholars we have here
00:42:17.15\00:42:20.62
in our live audience.
00:42:20.65\00:42:22.08
The Ten Commandments;
were they outside the ark
00:42:22.62\00:42:26.54
or were they in the ark of
the covenant, the golden box?
00:42:26.57\00:42:28.99
They're in the golden box.
00:42:29.56\00:42:31.27
The ordinances
and the laws of Moses,
00:42:31.30\00:42:34.56
they were in a
book written on paper.
00:42:35.87\00:42:38.48
That was put outside the ark.
00:42:38.51\00:42:40.22
Never does it say
that is inside the ark.
00:42:40.25\00:42:42.33
The Ten
Commandments inside the ark,
00:42:42.74\00:42:44.50
ordinances in a
pocket outside the ark.
00:42:44.53\00:42:47.26
Why? That it might be
a witness against you.
00:42:47.29\00:42:50.38
Paul is referring to the
book of ordinances that was a
00:42:50.41\00:42:53.69
witness against them.
00:42:53.70\00:42:55.27
Notice there's a
distinction between the laws.
00:42:55.30\00:42:58.31
2 Chronicles chapter 33 verse 8.
00:42:58.34\00:43:01.19
Handwriting that is against you.
00:43:21.70\00:43:23.86
Those are the ordinances.
00:43:24.26\00:43:26.02
This is what is
nailed to the cross.
00:43:26.05\00:43:28.04
And of course, Exodus 32:16.
00:43:28.07\00:43:30.36
It's telling us in Colossians
chapter 2 that, don't let
00:43:37.43\00:43:40.38
anyone judge you
regarding the ordinances.
00:43:40.41\00:43:43.23
That includes the
Jewish annual Sabbath days;
00:43:43.24\00:43:47.19
things like
Passover, Day of Atonement,
00:43:47.22\00:43:50.14
the feast days, Yom Kippur;
those things came after sin.
00:43:50.15\00:43:54.51
When Jesus died on the
cross, the veil and the curtain
00:43:54.54\00:43:57.90
was ripped, the
ceremonial system was abolished.
00:43:57.93\00:44:01.82
Those things were
all nailed to the cross.
00:44:01.85\00:44:04.11
The Ten Commandments are
for mankind through all ages.
00:44:04.14\00:44:07.98
This is the moral code of man.
00:44:07.99\00:44:10.01
The first four commandments
talk about our love for God
00:44:10.48\00:44:13.03
and our relationship with
Him and our worshipping Him.
00:44:13.06\00:44:16.09
The last six commandments
are dealing more with the
00:44:16.12\00:44:19.24
horizontal social
relationships of men.
00:44:19.25\00:44:22.02
But, no, the Sabbath day
was not nailed to the cross.
00:44:22.05\00:44:25.76
And don't we still
need a day to worship God?
00:44:26.18\00:44:29.94
Is the Jewish anatomy different
from the anatomy of other people
00:44:31.22\00:44:34.88
where they just needed more
rest on a more regular basis?
00:44:34.91\00:44:38.28
Number seven.
00:44:41.72\00:44:42.87
So sequentially, Pastor
Doug, I don't have a problem,
00:44:49.83\00:44:53.99
and I've heard a lot of
my fellow pastors say this,
00:44:54.02\00:44:58.03
we don't have a problem with our
Seventh-day Adventist friends
00:44:58.06\00:45:00.99
deciding that they want
to worship God on Saturday.
00:45:01.02\00:45:03.41
Matter of fact, we've got
a lot of our Sunday churches
00:45:03.44\00:45:05.68
to accommodate
people's works schedules.
00:45:05.71\00:45:07.44
We're beginning to
meet on Saturday and Sunday
00:45:07.47\00:45:10.12
trying to help everybody out.
00:45:10.15\00:45:11.68
Just don't judge anybody.
00:45:11.98\00:45:13.46
It doesn't matter as
long as it's one in seven.
00:45:13.49\00:45:15.83
But Pastor Barney...
00:45:18.68\00:45:20.58
I just enjoy saying
that, "Pastor Barney."
00:45:21.39\00:45:23.96
When God gives the Sabbath day
in the very beginning there in
00:45:26.55\00:45:30.21
Genesis chapter
2:2-3, it says three times,
00:45:30.24\00:45:34.96
"the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the Lord."
00:45:34.99\00:45:39.07
It is the most definite article.
00:45:39.10\00:45:41.23
He doesn't say, "a
Sabbath day," as though we can
00:45:41.26\00:45:44.52
all pick our own.
00:45:44.55\00:45:45.72
And what would happen to
the church if every individual
00:45:45.75\00:45:48.04
decides what is going to be the
day for their corporate worship?
00:45:48.07\00:45:52.29
God wants us to have a
day where we let Him pick.
00:45:52.90\00:45:56.20
He tells us.
00:45:56.21\00:45:57.55
We don't call the appointment,
He calls the appointment,
00:45:57.58\00:46:01.01
because He is God.
00:46:01.04\00:46:02.30
Not only that, He did something
to the seventh day that
00:46:02.31\00:46:06.11
we can't do.
00:46:06.14\00:46:07.72
He says, "I have
blessed the seventh day,
00:46:07.75\00:46:10.53
I have sanctified that
day, I have made that day holy."
00:46:10.56\00:46:14.05
So does every person have the
power to bless a 24 hour period
00:46:14.08\00:46:18.64
and make it holy?
00:46:18.67\00:46:20.04
Only God can
make something holy.
00:46:20.07\00:46:22.03
And the Bible tells us
what God does, He does forever.
00:46:22.06\00:46:25.76
Number eight.
00:46:27.26\00:46:28.31
It's been so long
since Bible times.
00:46:32.06\00:46:33.51
Pastor Doug, I'm surprised
that our Seventh-day Adventist
00:46:37.03\00:46:40.46
brothers and sisters are
so legalistic about this day
00:46:40.49\00:46:43.87
when none of us
actually really knows about
00:46:43.90\00:46:47.48
what day is the seventh day.
00:46:47.51\00:46:48.74
The calendar has been changed.
00:46:48.77\00:46:50.11
And how would you
possible keep the Sabbath if you
00:46:50.14\00:46:52.73
were on the
international space station
00:46:52.76\00:46:55.11
where the days are all
mixed up and you're just
00:46:55.50\00:46:57.39
circling out there in space?
00:46:57.42\00:46:59.17
Well I'd love to be on the
international space station.
00:47:00.89\00:47:03.01
I really hope
that happens some day.
00:47:03.04\00:47:04.67
And I'll probably keep
the Sabbath then according to
00:47:04.70\00:47:07.73
Sacramento time if
that should every happen.
00:47:07.76\00:47:10.22
But when God gave
Adam and Eve the Sabbath,
00:47:10.25\00:47:12.28
they weren't on
the space station.
00:47:12.31\00:47:13.96
And if we've got
problems keeping the Sabbath day
00:47:13.97\00:47:17.76
because you think
there's a calendar problem,
00:47:17.79\00:47:20.00
how do you know
what day Sunday is?
00:47:20.03\00:47:21.64
You say you keep Sunday
in honor of the resurrection.
00:47:21.67\00:47:24.03
If we've got a problem with
which day is the seventh day,
00:47:24.06\00:47:26.23
you've got a problem with
which day is the first day.
00:47:26.26\00:47:28.28
That was a low blow.
00:47:32.32\00:47:33.90
But we do know from the
Bible which day is which.
00:47:37.48\00:47:40.64
You can look here in
Luke chapter 23 verse 54.
00:47:42.29\00:47:46.16
Speaking of the day
that Jesus died, it says,
00:47:48.24\00:47:51.13
"That day was the preparation,
and the Sabbath drew near."
00:47:51.16\00:47:55.02
So what day is
before the seventh day?
00:47:55.03\00:47:57.66
The sixth day, right?
00:47:57.69\00:47:59.38
That's what we call Friday.
00:48:00.33\00:48:01.67
That's what they
called the preparation day.
00:48:01.70\00:48:03.65
Then you read in Luke 23
verse 56, "Then they returned
00:48:03.68\00:48:07.93
and prepared spices and
fragrant oils, and they rested
00:48:07.94\00:48:11.18
on the Sabbath..."
00:48:11.19\00:48:12.56
Luke doesn't say,
"the old Jewish Sabbath."
00:48:12.99\00:48:14.55
He says, "the Sabbath."
00:48:14.56\00:48:15.85
"...according to
the commandment."
00:48:15.88\00:48:18.19
And then it tells
us in Luke 24 verse 1,
00:48:18.83\00:48:21.18
"Now on the first day of the
week, very early in the morning,
00:48:22.02\00:48:24.83
they and certain other women
with them came to the tomb."
00:48:24.86\00:48:27.75
That's what you'd
call, Easter Sunday.
00:48:27.78\00:48:30.24
And so sandwiched between
what we would call Good Friday,
00:48:30.54\00:48:34.52
or people call it Good
Friday, the day that Jesus died,
00:48:34.55\00:48:37.00
and the day that Jesus rose,
you've got the Sabbath day.
00:48:37.01\00:48:41.50
And you know what I
think is very interesting is,
00:48:41.53\00:48:44.88
Christ validated the seventh
day of the week with His death.
00:48:44.89\00:48:48.96
He didn't validate Sunday.
00:48:48.99\00:48:51.36
He dies on the cross,
He says, "It is finished."
00:48:51.39\00:48:55.28
His testament is sealed.
00:48:55.31\00:48:57.40
And what does He do?
00:48:57.70\00:48:58.99
He rests in the tomb
through the entire Sabbath.
00:48:59.48\00:49:04.46
He rises Sunday to continue His
work for us as our High Priest
00:49:04.86\00:49:11.67
and our Intercessor
who ever lives to make
00:49:11.70\00:49:14.01
intercession for us.
00:49:14.04\00:49:15.44
Even in the timing of
Jesus' death, He endorses
00:49:15.86\00:49:19.15
the Sabbath day.
00:49:19.16\00:49:20.16
He doesn't
establish another day.
00:49:20.19\00:49:22.11
So I think that's pretty clear.
00:49:23.68\00:49:26.81
I'm pacing myself
looking at the clock here.
00:49:29.27\00:49:31.43
Pastor Doug, do you believe
that all of the Christians
00:49:32.57\00:49:37.37
who do not observe
the seventh day are lost?
00:49:37.40\00:49:41.38
I go first this time.
00:49:44.07\00:49:45.26
No.
00:49:46.66\00:49:47.78
There are a lot of people,
millions, that will be in heaven
00:49:48.52\00:49:52.83
that worship God on
the first day of the week.
00:49:52.86\00:49:56.54
There will be people in
heaven that maybe didn't even
00:49:56.94\00:49:58.97
know what some of
the commandments were
00:49:59.00\00:50:02.11
or understand them.
00:50:02.14\00:50:03.48
God judges people based on
the light that they're given.
00:50:03.51\00:50:07.04
John 9 verse 41.
00:50:07.70\00:50:09.76
Jesus said to them, "If you were
blind, you would have no sin;
00:50:09.79\00:50:14.74
but now you say, 'We see.'
00:50:14.77\00:50:16.40
Therefore your sin remains."
00:50:16.43\00:50:18.92
"To whom much is
given, much is required."
00:50:18.95\00:50:21.85
And so, there are going to
be people who broke the Sabbath
00:50:21.88\00:50:25.35
that will be lost
because of that commandment.
00:50:25.38\00:50:27.39
There will be people
who are lost because of
00:50:27.42\00:50:29.45
all of the commandments.
00:50:29.48\00:50:31.00
The idea of sin is,
when you know to do good
00:50:31.58\00:50:34.37
and you do not do it.
00:50:34.38\00:50:35.38
The Bible says, "Sin is knowing
to do good and not doing it."
00:50:35.39\00:50:38.85
When we know God's will.
00:50:38.86\00:50:40.16
And if someone
understands the Sabbath truth
00:50:40.19\00:50:42.59
and they reject it in favor
of being popular or fitting in,
00:50:42.62\00:50:46.36
well that's a
serious issue, pastor.
00:50:46.39\00:50:48.53
But no, we know that...
00:50:48.93\00:50:50.13
And I said this in
our opening presentation.
00:50:50.16\00:50:52.43
Seventh-day Adventists
believe the greatest part of
00:50:52.73\00:50:56.36
Christ's true followers
are still in the fellowship
00:50:56.39\00:51:00.60
of other communions.
00:51:00.63\00:51:02.36
But I believe we're
getting very close to the end.
00:51:02.80\00:51:05.01
And I don't think we have time
to just slap each other on the
00:51:05.70\00:51:08.33
back and act like
doctrine doesn't matter.
00:51:08.36\00:51:10.38
I think God's people
need to stand up and say,
00:51:10.39\00:51:12.60
"This is what the Bible says."
00:51:12.63\00:51:14.06
We love you, we
want to be friends.
00:51:14.09\00:51:15.72
But we are given a message.
00:51:15.75\00:51:17.39
Even in the face of persecution.
00:51:17.42\00:51:19.08
Jesus said the Word
of God is like a sword;
00:51:19.11\00:51:21.79
it's truth and it may divide.
00:51:21.80\00:51:23.34
But we've got to
proclaim what the truth is.
00:51:23.37\00:51:25.79
And when it's a truth regarding
one of God's commandments,
00:51:25.82\00:51:28.83
Jesus said,
"Whosoever therefore shall break
00:51:28.86\00:51:31.77
one of the least of
these commandments and
00:51:31.80\00:51:33.85
teach men so, he will be spoken
of as least in the kingdom."
00:51:33.86\00:51:37.51
So I'm just doing
what Jesus said to do.
00:51:37.54\00:51:39.76
"Whoever shall do and teach
them," He said, our Lord said,
00:51:39.79\00:51:44.13
"will be great in
the kingdom of heaven."
00:51:44.16\00:51:45.92
I believe the Lord wants
us to preach this message.
00:51:46.32\00:51:49.52
And I hope, Pastor Barney,
that you're coming around
00:51:50.22\00:51:52.65
to my reasoning.
00:51:52.68\00:51:55.01
You know, it says we're to
reason together daily whether
00:51:55.04\00:51:57.48
these things are so.
00:51:57.51\00:51:58.65
Amen?
00:51:58.66\00:51:59.66
Study the Word of God together.
00:51:59.67\00:52:01.30
Alright, number ten.
00:52:03.28\00:52:04.68
Alright Pastor Doug, you
know I want to follow Jesus.
00:52:10.14\00:52:12.83
But you read in John
5:18, "Therefore the Jews sought
00:52:12.84\00:52:16.84
all the more to kill
Him, because He not only broke
00:52:16.87\00:52:19.96
the Sabbath, but also
said that God was His Father,
00:52:19.99\00:52:23.91
making Himself equal with God."
00:52:23.94\00:52:25.53
So if Jesus breaks the Sabbath,
then why are you giving us
00:52:25.56\00:52:28.25
a hard time about that?
00:52:28.28\00:52:29.78
Pastor, I think you know better.
00:52:31.51\00:52:32.93
You're talking about what
His enemies said about Him.
00:52:33.09\00:52:35.90
If you're going to go by
that, you've got to think about
00:52:35.93\00:52:38.27
everything they say.
00:52:38.30\00:52:39.58
Luke 4:16, "He came to Nazareth
where He was brought up..."
00:52:39.61\00:52:43.25
Oh, I don't want
to read that one yet.
00:52:44.12\00:52:45.32
I want to go to John 8:48.
00:52:45.35\00:52:48.20
"Then the Jews
answered and said to Him,
00:52:49.08\00:52:51.27
'Do we not say rightly
that You are a Samaritan
00:52:51.30\00:52:54.09
and You have a demon?'
00:52:54.12\00:52:55.57
And Jesus said, 'I
don't have a demon.'"
00:52:55.60\00:52:57.61
Matthew 11:18, Jesus said, "John
the Baptist came neither eating
00:52:57.64\00:53:02.43
nor drinking, and yet
they say, 'He has a demon.'
00:53:02.44\00:53:04.99
The Son of Man came eating
and drinking, and they say,
00:53:05.02\00:53:08.39
'Look, He is a glutton
and a winebibber, a friend of
00:53:08.42\00:53:11.80
tax collectors and sinners!'"
00:53:11.83\00:53:13.48
These were the
accusations of His enemies.
00:53:13.51\00:53:17.04
It is true, they accused Jesus
of breaking their traditions
00:53:17.07\00:53:21.49
regarding the Sabbath.
00:53:21.52\00:53:22.54
And He said, "You're
adding manmade traditions to the
00:53:22.57\00:53:25.35
commandments of God."
00:53:25.38\00:53:26.44
Yes, He did break
their manmade traditions.
00:53:26.45\00:53:28.54
But they weren't part
of the Sabbath commandment.
00:53:28.55\00:53:30.96
Jesus said, "I have
kept My Father's commandments
00:53:30.97\00:53:34.37
and abide in His love."
00:53:34.40\00:53:35.62
If you're
suggesting that Jesus sinned,
00:53:35.65\00:53:37.66
we're all in big trouble.
00:53:37.69\00:53:39.02
And then of course finally,
00:53:40.24\00:53:41.97
a Christian is a
follower of Jesus.
00:53:42.95\00:53:44.97
Isn't that right?
00:53:45.00\00:53:46.11
What was Jesus' example?
00:53:46.59\00:53:48.60
Luke 4:16, and it says,
"And He came to Nazareth,
00:53:49.39\00:53:53.35
where He had been brought up.
00:53:53.38\00:53:54.56
And as His custom was,
He went into the synagogue
00:53:54.59\00:53:59.08
on the Sabbath day,
and stood up to read."
00:53:59.11\00:54:02.11
Now, is a custom
something you do once or twice?
00:54:02.64\00:54:05.55
Or is a custom
a pattern of life?
00:54:05.58\00:54:07.93
It's a behavior that goes on.
00:54:08.23\00:54:09.88
Jesus' pattern was
on a regular basis.
00:54:10.18\00:54:13.39
They were used
to seeing Him there.
00:54:13.42\00:54:15.16
They would gather
together in the synagogue.
00:54:15.19\00:54:19.27
The same word as church.
It means, the gathering place.
00:54:19.30\00:54:21.78
He read the
scriptures with them.
00:54:22.25\00:54:24.02
That was His custom.
00:54:24.05\00:54:25.26
That was the
custom of the apostles.
00:54:25.29\00:54:27.95
Paul reasoned with both
Jews and Greeks every week
00:54:27.96\00:54:31.63
on the Sabbath.
00:54:31.66\00:54:33.08
And so this is what you
find back in the Garden of Eden.
00:54:33.11\00:54:36.75
God first makes the Sabbath
for man, meaning mankind,
00:54:37.05\00:54:39.99
in the very beginning.
00:54:40.00\00:54:41.00
Adam and Eve worshipped God on
this holy Day that God blessed.
00:54:41.01\00:54:44.40
It's a pattern of
God's people all through the
00:54:44.43\00:54:46.56
exodus experience.
00:54:46.59\00:54:48.16
It tells us, it's
the example of Jesus.
00:54:48.19\00:54:50.80
And whenever you're in
doubt about what to do,
00:54:51.10\00:54:53.04
you follow Jesus and
you're not going to have
00:54:53.07\00:54:55.07
any problems with that.
00:54:55.10\00:54:56.72
It's the
example of the apostles.
00:54:57.42\00:54:59.58
We know that in the new
heaven and the new earth,
00:54:59.61\00:55:01.78
it says that from one
Sabbath to another all flesh...
00:55:01.79\00:55:05.59
That doesn't
mean all Jewish flesh.
00:55:05.62\00:55:07.28
It's not all kosher flesh.
00:55:07.83\00:55:10.03
"All flesh" means Jew and
Gentile will come together to
00:55:10.06\00:55:13.53
worship before the Lord.
00:55:13.56\00:55:14.83
And if we're all going to be one
people when Jesus comes back,
00:55:14.86\00:55:17.75
then I think He wants us
to start getting together now.
00:55:18.99\00:55:21.35
God's church is too divided.
00:55:21.37\00:55:23.10
We're all polarized.
00:55:23.37\00:55:24.71
And this is exactly
what the devil wants.
00:55:24.74\00:55:26.93
Jesus said, "All men will
know that you are My disciples
00:55:27.31\00:55:29.92
by your love for one another."
00:55:29.95\00:55:31.70
And I think that love
needs to be based on loving the
00:55:33.24\00:55:35.61
Word of God,
because Jesus is the Word.
00:55:35.64\00:55:38.97
"The Word became flesh."
00:55:39.00\00:55:41.01
And so we need to base
that love on what is truth.
00:55:41.04\00:55:44.17
It's the truth
that sets people free.
00:55:44.20\00:55:46.14
I think Christians need to stop
being so apologetic and afraid.
00:55:46.40\00:55:49.92
"In the name of unity",
we say, "let's put aside all
00:55:49.95\00:55:53.52
doctrinal differences."
00:55:53.55\00:55:55.13
I believe that this is
a very important truth.
00:55:56.26\00:55:58.51
Do you have any final
word for us, Pastor Barney?
00:55:59.31\00:56:01.36
Brother Doug, I just
can't help but want to ask you,
00:56:03.01\00:56:06.38
Seventh-day
Adventists are a minority
00:56:06.83\00:56:09.04
compared to the vast millions
in the Christian church.
00:56:09.07\00:56:11.96
How can you guys
think that you're right
00:56:12.54\00:56:14.63
and all of these other
Christian pastors and scholars
00:56:14.66\00:56:17.86
could be wrong?
00:56:17.89\00:56:19.11
I know, Pastor
Barney, that is troubling.
00:56:21.20\00:56:23.37
But you know, that's
been the pattern of the Bible.
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You can read in
John chapter 7 verse 46,
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they said the
same thing about Jesus.
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"The officers answered, 'No
man ever spoke like this Man.'"
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They sent them to arrest Jesus.
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And they came back and they
said, "We've never heard anyone
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speak like this."
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"Then the Pharisees
sneered and said to them,
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'Are you also deceived?
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Have any of the rulers or
the Pharisees believed in Him?"
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"Let's find out what the
majority thinks and let's
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follow the majority."
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You know, that's what is going
to get the world in trouble
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in the last days.
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That beast power is going to
command all, small and great,
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rich and poor, free
and bond, to worship.
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And those who have the seal
of God that are following the
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commandments of the Lord,
one of the last things it says
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in the Bible, "Blessed are
those who keep His commandments
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that they might have a
right to enter through the gates
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of the city and eat from
the tree of life," friends.
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I would think the
one commandment with the
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word "holy", the one commandment
with the word "remember",
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that deals with our time and
our love relationship with God,
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that would be an
important commandment.
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You know, I've run out of time.
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But I want you to keep studying.
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We've got a
website, English and Spanish,
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that's called, sabbathtruth.com.
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Please study the
information for yourself.
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It's even in
Spanish, sabadobiblico.com.
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And we hope you will look at it.
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We're not done with
our presentations, friends.
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We hope you join us again
for the next in our series,
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Anchors Of Truth.
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God bless you.
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